Student award The branch has decided to sponsor three R5 000 awards per semester, one each at UKZN, DUT and MUT, with the aim of promoting automation and control engineering by rewarding outstanding ...
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SA Instrumentation and Control recently had the opportunity to talk to incoming SAIMC president, Annemarie van Coller. Her predecessor, Oratile Sematle, joined us as well. We quizzed them about personal ...
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Technology is developing at a staggering pace and the current education system has not been able to cater for all these dynamic changes and disruptive technologies. The result is that graduates completing ...
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The last technology evening was hosted by WIKA Instruments where product specialist, Lloyd Townsend, presented on ‘The Basics of Temperature Measurement’.    Lloyd covered a wide range of topics such ...
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Technology evening    The July technology evening was held at the Durban Country Club on 4 July, but nobody seemed interested in celebrating American Independence Day. We did, however, have a record attendance ...
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The technology evening for July was presented by Frederik Langenhoven from Pepperl+Fuchs on the topic ‘Keeping up with the demand for high-speed communication in modern process plants’.    There are two ...
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Technology evenings    The May technology evening was hosted by WIKA where product specialist Lloyd Townsend presented on the purpose and significance of calibration. Lloyd discussed the purpose and significance ...
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When considering a topic for my letter this month, so many things came to mind. The SAIMC is growing at a dramatic pace. We see improvements and initiatives that our members are driving, which develop ...
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The SAIMC Secunda Branch Technology evening for May was presented by Kallie Bodenstein from Yokogawa. He gave a very informative presentation that touched on all aspects of Distributed Control Systems ...
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Technology evening Recently, the branch was fortunate to be invited to The National Laboratory Association (NLA) in Lynwood, where Steve Sidney and John Wilson presented on ‘The role of technical infrastructure ...
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The June technology meeting of the Durban branch of the SAIMC was held on 6 June, as usual at the Durban Country Club. Krzysztof Lapacz, business development manager for the Industrial Networking department ...
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At the last technology evening Gavin van Rooy from Comtest hosted and presented on the topic entitled ‘Temperature Measurement and Calibration what every Instrument Technician should know.’    Temperature ...
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